Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879-1939

This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket's introduction to the islands in 1879, it uses both cricket and kirikiti to trace six decades of contest between and within the cate...

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Main Author: Sacks, Benjamin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics,
Subjects:
Imperialism.
Islands of the Pacific-History.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
World politics.
Sports-Sociological aspects.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Australasian History.
Cultural History.
Social History.
Political History.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
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